Anita Chan’s book is a reworking in greater depth of the studies that she has published over the last few years, on the exploitation suffered…

This is a very attractive volume with its 226 pages of text, and 315 pages overall. It includes two indices, one for proper names, and…

In this remarkable work, one chapter of which has been published in French (1), Shih Shu-mei raises some fundamental questions: what, for Chinese intellectuals of…

As his biographical note on the back cover states, He Qing’s works fall into the present-day problematic of cultural resistance to the “sham universalism” imposed…

So who will govern China in the twenty-first century? For several years now, political analysts have been fascinated by the study of the Party elite,…

This book belongs in the increasingly widespread category of works which inform the foreign public about things Chinese, but which add nothing in terms of…

In his new book, Robert Heuser, Professor of “Chinese legal culture” at Cologne University in Germany, intends from a perspective that is both historical and…

This substantial (over 2,000 pages), four-volume book by Xing Ziling, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, a former soldier in the People’s Liberation Army,…

At a time when attention is increasingly focused on the question of potential candidates to succeed Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji at the head of…

This work is the outcome of an international conference held in Leiden in October 1998 the object of which was to draw a picture of…